”The design of the film is exquisite, like Marie Antoinette gone to Memphis. Coppola uses costumes and settings to express what the characters cannot. She’s an incredibly sophisticated filmmaker, able to convey complicated power dynamics through her placement of actors in relation to their surroundings. It’s a tale told through images and things left unsaid.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 11/02/2022

“By bumping the arrival of Tom White and his federal agents to the film’s third hour, they’ve transformed a procedural into an inquiry, using DiCaprio’s irrepressible magnetism to plumb the depths of denial and culpability amid an atrocity, an unsettling examination of soul sick men who are strangers to themselves. In other words, they turned it into a Scorsese movie.” – North Shore Movies, 10/29/2023

“Like watching a magnificent athlete on a Stairmaster, Fincher’s barebones adaptation of a French comic book series has a story as nondescript as its title, continually distracting itself from the flaccid narrative with the filmmaker’s signature stylistic tics. Absent any visible inspiration or discernible reason for being, it’s a project that exists because it can.” – North Shore Movies, 10/29/2023

”It’s the kind of sophisticated entertainment for adults that one usually has to find overseas or on television these days. In fact, despite being awarded top prize at the world’s foremost film festival, Anatomy Of A Fall feels more like one of those prestige cable miniseries that your co-workers are always going on about on Monday mornings.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/26/2023

“Though a good deal more technically polished and slightly less scatologically obsessed, this strenuously filthy comedy is director Larry Charles’ tribute to the ebullient, transgressive early films of John Waters. The movie tries hard to muster the same shocking, anything-goes energy of a midnight madness screening. Sometimes it tries too hard.” – North Shore Movies, 10/19/2023

“There’s an offhand elegance to the way Almodóvar and his longtime cinematographer José Luis Alcaine construct their scenes that I find immensely pleasing to look at. Images flow into each other with effortless grace. Strange Way Of Life is so easy to watch, these thirty-one minutes seem to pass in five. I know I’m being greedy, but I wanted more.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/05/2023

“It falls on neighbors of all races and religious beliefs to put aside their petty differences and drive away these demons together, as apparently only ‘Kumbaya’ can cast out Pazuzu. It’s an exorcism as a group hug. The Benneton angle is so overplayed, on the way out of the theater a pal said he wished they’d gone all the way and brought in a Hare Krishna to help.” – North Shore Movies, 10/05/2023

”A short film with the weight and breadth of an epic, traversing continents and time periods while remaining stock still. Based on a 1977 story by Roald Dahl, it’s a literary adaptation unlike any you have seen before; a dramatic reading that uses theatrical techniques to simulate the enveloping experience of burrowing into a book you don’t want to put down.” – North Shore Movies, 09/29/2023

“Statham and Fox have an irascible chemistry, beating the crap out of each other in a love scene that ends with her panties dangling from the ceiling fan. It is, to my recollection, the first time an Expendable has gotten laid in one of these movies. They’re usually too busy getting blackout drunk at biker bars and arm wrestling with each other. Platonically, of course.” – North Shore Movies, 09/22/2023